changing in rural places

cloakes index of rurality

  • bipolar analysis of a number of criteria to define ‘how‘ rural and area is

  • paul cloake desighned it in 1971 to help authories identify the problems of rural areas in order to create ways to solve them

  • categorise all the areas in england and wales (limited) in 4 criteria

    • extreme rural

    • intermediate rural

    • intermediate non- rural

    • extreme non - rural as well as urban areas

  • 16 differnt ways of drawing conclusions to lead to a measure of an areas rurality

factors in clokes index

  • female population (15-44)

    • measure of natural increase in an area

    • what health care needs to be there. if there is a decrease in females a population shift or dieing out will occur

  • agriculture employment

    • rural and agriculture means low income

    • grants from the gov to push uk grown food

  • occupency

    • not include abandoned buildings

  • community

  • amenities

  • pop density

  • elderly population

    • de urbanisation means there is not young people to take care of the elderly a

    • things r less accessable

    • towns and villages die out due to ageing population

  • remoteness (distance 5000)

forces for change

biggleswade examples

international institutions

  • eg european union

global institution

  • world trade organisations

national institutions

  • national trust

  • co-op transient - people will spend in the place where they visit and work

local goverment

  • bedfordshire council

individuals

  • activists, aristocrats, celebrities

  • commuters and young professionals

TNCs

  • tata steel , tesco

  • saisburys and ASDA

local community groups

  • new era estate residents

  • kings reach- orchard center

  • old people community rotary club

  • whetherly center

national goverment

global scale examples of these changes and impacts

tata steel uk

  • june 2015

    • workers threaten going on indefinate strike

    • raise pension age from 60 to 63 to 65

    • union damands lower revenue

    • profits in uk falling

    • manual labor difficult jobs and factories arent good for bodies

    • generatins work in these factoires and cant find a new employment base

    • got to goverment/ david camreon - implement goverment policies